Indic culture venetrates the Earth as one's own mother. We have not acknowledged nature's needs and concerns and accord to the highest respect and honour just as the mother is respected universally in all the traditions and cultures.Like a mother, nature nourishes all living beings with food, water and shelter without discrimination.
Nature reveals a beautiful part of ourselves, we cannot find anywhere else. It is the greatest place to cleanse and heal. We can see the synergy, the whole nature is imbibed within itself. We can see this when we are we are in harmony within ourselves. People who are not in harmony within themselves can never be in harmony with the environment around them.
Indic culture upholds a great deal of respect for nature. Infact, we used to worship the 5 elements of nature - earth, air, water, ether and fire. Today these principles seems to be forgotten and there is wide-scale exploitation of natural resources. Instead of caring about the long term wellbeing of the world, the environment is brazenly being destroyed and serious implications of it are clearly visible in the way weather patterns are changing, species and habitats are getting depleted and new diseases are developing. This is why ,the world is suffering from incurable disease like Covid-19.
The cause of all physical pollution is polluted consciousness, because our minds are polluted with unsatisfiable toxic greed through exploiting nature. The Vedic solution is to learn how to be content and satisfied with simple living and high thinking. We should transform ourselves from being little Ravanas to becoming little Hanumans from exploiting nature for our selfish motives to protecting and honour mother nature for divine purposes.
Like our bodies, mother nature also heals herself. But if exploited repeatedly, and toxins are injected into her, then she can't heal herself and the result is serious diseases and disasters. We should strive to conserve our water resources and forest cover. Our body is made up of nature. Therefore, we feel bliss when we are connected with nature. It is in nature we discover multiple forms of life - and learn how humans can live in harmony with them. But it is this simple discovery that we lose as our lives grow more complex. There is no greater truth today than the fact that we need to create a new world determined not by greed, but by its sustainability and simplicity.
We must akin to our childhood selves, for whom a walk on the hill was a vibrant thrill, a voyage into a new world of flora and fauna. The more profound way to save our ecology is to clean the ecology of our consciousness.
Really....nice thoughts abt mother... in the world come as Good for us....
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